she could twist even the most polite verbal disagreement as "attacking her" simply by starting to cry.
Oh, but that's when you can win by "gracefully conceding" the argument. You're showing your own protective instinct, and everyone else can see that what you're really doing is bowing out because having a proper debate is clearly not a possibility.
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